Question about removing belts...

[Chevyguy]

In the very first post, he said he wanted to replace all THREE BELTS. Never have seen a 3 belt serp system.....sometimes reading can be such a bitch!!!

Somebody swapped an older motor into that truck that had the older v-belt system like my 87 did prior to converting it to the serpentine system.

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[Octane]

Yep, don't cut them, save them as spares when the new ones are installed.

The way I see it is if the old belts are good enough for spares then I'm gonna run them and keep the new ones for the emergency spare instead

 

[Ricko1966]

The way I see it is if the old belts are good enough for spares then I'm gonna run them and keep the new ones for the emergency spare instead

Thank you, that honestly made me laugh.

 

[Octane]

Thank you, that honestly made me laugh.

I'm gonna get my moneys worth out of every part I have this way.lol

 

[Chevyguy]

I'm gonna get my moneys worth out of every part I have this way.lol

Not worth it to me. If the belts over 5 years old it's getting replaced.

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[Octane]

Not worth it to me. If the belts over 5 years old it's getting replaced.

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How many miles traveled in 5 years?

 

[Chevyguy]

How many miles traveled in 5 years?

Doesn't matter, belts dry rot.

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[Ricko1966]

So anyway, if you dropped the cat from somewhere really high would it be different than if you only dropped the cat 3 feet.

 

[Octane]

Doesn't matter, belts dry rot.

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Never had belts rot in 5 years.Some folks are just overly skeered and have too much money.lol. Todays quality belts are made from epdm synthetic rubber,resisist drying and cracking and heat.Even serpentine belts dont crack and dry like they did since being made from epdm rubber. One those after a lot of miles you can judge the wear by how deep the belt grooves are worn and replace accordingly

 

[RecklessWOT]

Not worth it to me. If the belts over 5 years old it's getting replaced.

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the belts on my truck I think are the ones that were on it when I got it. I'll replace them when they break (or get very close to it), only takes a minute or two, not exactly a big ordeal even if forced to do it in a parking lot somewhere. Not like a tire that could blow out and cause an accident. I don't care if they're 5 years old or 50 years old, if they work they work I'm not going to throw out a usable part like it has an expiration date lol.

 

[80BrownK10]

This is it! It seems so obvious now, but I've never had to deal with it before. Looks like I have to loosen the alternator to get that one off, and then the PS pump and the then the AC compressor. They each have a sliding adjustment bracket for adjusting the tension for each belt. I finally watched enough youtube videos last-night to figure it out ha!.

You had me confused too. I read serpentine and assumed you had one belt. My first response was to loosen each accessory the belt ran that's what tightens then. Then looking at the model year I thought maybe it was seprentine cause you were talking about a tensioner soi told you how to find one. Haha

 

[80BrownK10]

Never had belts rot in 5 years.Some folks are just overly skeered and have too much money.lol. Todays quality belts are made from epdm synthetic rubber,resisist drying and cracking and heat.Even serpentine belts dont crack and dry like they did since being made from epdm rubber. One those after a lot of miles you can judge the wear by how deep the belt grooves are worn and replace accordingly

I had my 2 belts off to do the water pump and timing set. One of the ones I looked at I pulled was pretty cracked , not deep or no where near looking like it would bust. But I think there 3 years old.

 

[80BrownK10]

the belts on my truck I think are the ones that were on it when I got it. I'll replace them when they break (or get very close to it), only takes a minute or two, not exactly a big ordeal even if forced to do it in a parking lot somewhere. Not like a tire that could blow out and cause an accident. I don't care if they're 5 years old or 50 years old, if they work they work I'm not going to throw out a usable part like it has an expiration date lol.

As long as you always have the tools, time and the spare that's not a problem

 

[80BrownK10]

How many miles traveled in 5 years?

Depends on the vehicle, my square, maybe 7,000 miles, my work truck 100k miles.

 

[Octane]

So anyway, if you dropped the cat from somewhere really high would it be different than if you only dropped the cat 3 feet.

Not always.Mine got tossed out an upstairs patio door,landed mostly on his side and pretty quickly ran into the woods for a couple of days.Cat wasnt wasnt hurt but he shouldnt have taken a diarhea dump in the kitchen sink